At Dawn

Believe it or not, the second MMJ record, At Dawn, is even better than their first, the critically acclaimed, The Tennessee Fire. Jim’s soulful voice and lonely country-rock songs are more intoxicating than ever. My Morning Jacket songwriter Jim James has a voice that's both honey and charcoal, like Neil Young at his most vulnerable. The songs are great Deep South gothic canvases filled in with gracious acoustic and electric guitars, painterly strokes of harpsichord, harmonica and lap steel, drums swimming in the deepest, darkest, widest pools of reverb, dirigible harmonies that will have you weeping, with incensed atmosphere so thick, it's absolutely biblical.